Well, in Ontario, "Wiarton Willie" is our (albino) groundhog forecaster extraordinaire. (Imagine the possibilities for wrecks there!!!) Considering that we just got majorly dumped on with snow, no shadows were to be seen.

Trust me, it's snowing north of the border too. Toronto's hit worse thus us, but we're getting 15-20cm today in Ottawa plus high wind (OK, that's just a usual storm for us, but "no snow" would imply no shovelling ;;sigh;; ). However, we are lucky to not be getting what Chicago got (two years ago, we got a record 54cm in one day, so we know how miserable they feel!)

Those CCC wanna-be snowflakes ought to join the groundhogs in that lawsuit...

A Groundhogs Day cake decorated with roses-- isn't that just a wee bit off season???

Yup, Canadians have "Groad Hog" day too...but since spring never comes mid-March this far north the miserable rodents are unlikely to be right with their prediction of an early spring this year :( Shall we call it "groad-kill hogs"?

PS those of us with a sense of humour always welcome a good beaver joke!

ah the majestic beaver with it's strong tail and chompy teeth.. how we love him. oh hey - don't apologize for the beaver jokes - I'm Canadian and I think they're very funny :) actually I think the whole thing is very funny, the website I mean not the concept of a beaver. Although I suppose that's funny too.

The mighty beav. I need coffee, and a strong westerly moving front, I'm not sure what that means, but you get my drift.

Today is also known as Candlemas, The Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, The Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, La Fête de la Chandeleur, and The Meeting of the Lord. So, yeah, not sure how a groundhog got mixed up in all of THAT.

The groad hog made me think of the line in the Beatles song 'Dig A Pony' that says "do a road hog" What were those freaky snowflake cakes? It's snowing here in Arkansas and I know what a snowflake looks like. I think...

I thought that the one with the crickets chirping looked a bit like a faceless blue teddy bear(maybe I'm losing it...)

I live in British Columbia Can.( California of Canada),in a small town nestled in the mountains. We get winter but compared to other places it is quite mild, though we do look forward to spring. To-day is cloudy so if we had our own groadhog he would stay out and play and let us know spring is on the way. Yeah!! Wreakenators live on so this site can be here forever.

@mimiheart, good luck with that 45! I'm in Peoria and its 41 that feels like 31 because of the wind. But at least we don't have any of that stuff that inspired those weird blue cakes.I love a good beaver joke, you can really sink your teeth into them!

It's an American (& Canadian?) holiday, but according to the article I read this morning it comes from Germany:"The Groundhog Day celebration is rooted in a German superstition that says if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on Feb. 2, the Christian holiday of Candlemas, winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow was seen, legend said spring would come early."Candlemas?...blink, blink.... hmmmmmm.... Just sounds like another holiday for cake wreckers out there to butcher. I say we need a collection of Candlemas cakes! Whatddya say Jen? ;-)

One of those snowflake cakes was clearly made in a teddy-bear shaped pan. Because teddy bears, like snowflakes, are six-sided and pointy.

We got over 18 inches of snow here in Chicago. The local high school has a snow day for the first time since 1979. And THE GROUNDHOG SAW HIS SHADOW. Yeah. I'm having a ball with the snow, though. Ooh, snowball fight! I should go have one.

WV: fraggess. Jim Henson's Fraggess Rock is not as well known as Sesame Street, but is just as clever.

There's an even better weather photo making the rounds on Facebook, featuring a ... colloquial-language version ... of the New England weather forecast. I can't repeat its contents because this is a family site!

This post is made all the more sad by the fact that I got the *cutest* groundhog cupcakes from my cupcake lady. A little sugar cookie groundhog peering out of a cupcake, complete with oreo cookie "dirt" and piped frosting grass! Not a hint of chocolate poo in sight. :D

#1 Maybe the wreckerator had to battle through heavy traffic to get to work.

#2 Oh the irony of ordinal placement. What is 'groundhog plaza'? I think when the manager said to recycle cake boards, this is not what he or she had in mind. Didn't Sandra Lee teach this wreckerator anything about the importance of cleaning as you work?

#3 I see a brown hovercraft with a face. Let's hope it isn't full of eels.

#4 Ok, I'm pretty sure this is a weather map, not a cake. (Fighting to restrain urge to say something snarky about 'global warming'...)

#5 Aerial view of a snowbound airport terminal? An 8-way intersection before the plows come through? (Based on some of the things the state Department of Transportation comes up with, it could happen.)

#6 What is underneath all that blue -- giant marshmallows?. I hope it matches the decor, at least. Something is missing on top, though.

#7 "The manager is out today -- I can use the airbrush! Yess!"

#8 What's the deal on the borders? Was a Grounn Dhog operating the turntable?

I know in Florida, its warm and sunny, but I know those of us in the midwest were hoping for a "snowpocalypse" wreck blog today! In SW Missouri we had between 10 and 20 inches depending on the county. I personally spent 3 hours clearing the driveway and only got half it cleared off. And its sunny here today, so I guess the groundhog saw his shadow and we are in for more of this oh so lovely whiteness. blukky! Schools are called off for tomorrow so now we are looking at 3 Snow Days so far!

@Aliza: I bet all the "snow birds" that are wintering here in Austin, Texas, are pretty peeved about the highs in the mid 30s and lows in the low 20s and teens we are having this week.

As for the "cheeky little fella" with the "crappy back end", Come on wreckerator,even Sandra Lee knows how to keep her cake plate clean...and that's saying a lot for her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW8W48KZ3J0

I'm Canadian.. we can always expect more winter. I don't think we take groundhog day as seriously as Americans. Today a bunch of universities got a snow day here in Ontario.. I think the groundhog stayed in his hole.

Remember, the snow isn't the only indication of a hard winter...We just had our first days since well before Christmas that were over 20 degrees and NOT crazy windy in Fargo last week. ACK! We'll take snow, but the crazy cold weather can be done anytime soon!

i gotta tell you... i had a pretty crap-tastic day today and reading today's post made me laugh and i REALLY needed to laugh. i especially liked the footnote re: beaver jokes. after a hard day at work, i always look forward to visiting your site for a little pick-me-up.

I got a real word for wv! And now, a state of panic sets in, as I try desperately to think of something hilarious to say, combining "panic" and "Ground Hog Day"... ummmm.... nope. Although I will say it's a panic that people actually believe a woodchuck can predict the weather. *G* *shrug* But then, why not? Weathermen are wrong 50% of the time, and they have to go to college to know how to misinterpret the weather maps, right?

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